16 courses with the subject ANTH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ANTH 105Great Discoveries in Archaeology Credits: 33
This course introduces students to great archaeological discoveries around the world that have led to an understanding of the human past on Earth. It explores the various tactics employed by peoples worldwide from the distant and recent times that led to the development of the first civilizations. Its primary focus is on comparing and contrasting how archaeology examines the rise and fall of ancient civilizations through examination of such sites as the pyramids of Ancient Egypt, the ziggurats of Sumer in Iraq, Homer’s Troy, the Coliseum in Rome, and the sacrificial pyramids of the Classic Maya and Aztec of Central America. Through the study of these great archaeological discoveries, students will enhance their appreciation of ancient cultural diversity.
Is a study of the nature of humanity. Cuts across the boundaries which separate the sciences from the humanities and embraces both. Deals with basic facts concerning humanity in all of its variations, leading to understanding and appreciation of the significant differences in the behavior of various ethnic groups.
Considers human biology. Topics include genetic, developmental and physiological mechanisms by which human populations adjust to their environment. Included are the study of human origins as seen in the fossil record and the comparative biology of humans and their primate relatives.
Introduces archaeological method and theory, while tracing our prehistoric heritage and the processes that led to the evolution of settled villages, agriculture, and eventually civilization. Topics range from early African human origins to the European Stone Age and from Mesopotamia and Egypt to Mexico and the United States.
Is a course in ethnography that studies the wide range and variability of human culture, considers other ways of life, and the continuity of humanity and culture. A number of societies will be studied on the different levels of social organization and on a worldwide basis.
Provides a cross-cultural framework for the comparison and analysis of supernatural belief systems. Discussion of local nature-based religions as well as major world religions. Also includes a consideration of the relationship between religion and science.
Introduces varied archaeological cultures that inhabited this continent for at least the last 15,000 years, if not longer. Topics range from the early Paleo-Indian mammoth hunters to the whale-hunting cultures of the Pacific Northwest, the Pueblo cliff dwellers of the American Southwest, the mound builders of the Eastern Woodlands, and finally to the period of contact with European explorers. Course supplemented with slides, films, and artifacts.
In this course we will explore the post-European contact lives of native North American tribal peoples, ranging from the Arctic adapted seal hunters to the maize farming cultures of the Desert Southwest and Eastern Woodlands to the Plains buffalo hunters. We will also examine the changes and problems brought on by European contact, that face all surviving Native American people on into the 21st century.
Examines archaeological evidence recovered from some of the greatest Pre-Columbian civilizations in the Americas, such as the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec. Addresses factors that led to the rise and fall of the ancient civilizations in the region archaeologists call Mesoamerica. Course supplemented with slides, films, and artifacts.
